To the top of Mt Tai

The students are having exams this week, so as ever us lazy foreign teachers don't have to teach on Thursday or Friday. We are therefore jumping at the opportunity to again visit somewhere new in China. This time we decided on Tai'an, due to the fact that it is right next to Mt Taishan - the leader of the 'Five Sacred Mountains' - so I am lead to believe. A five hour train jounrey should get us to Jinan, where we then have another short train ride South to the town of Tai'an.

The idea being that we try to climb to the top of the mountain, 'the most climbed mountain in the world', on Friday. Whether we are successful at this will wholly depend upon, as ever, how much alcohol is consumed the night before. Returning on Saturday evening, ill let you know on Sunday if we made it or not!